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How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one's
own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that
may be in conflict with some of the tenets of the faith -
especially when one is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community? Queer and Catholic
offers a source of comfort to members of these communities,
focusing on not only practicing Catholics, but also the entire
experience of growing up Catholic. This unique book discusses
Catholicism beyond its religiosity and considers its implications
as a culture of origin. This widely varied and entertaining book
pulls together a comprehensive collection of essays, stories, and
poetry that together represent an honest and engaging reflection of
being a queer person within the Catholic experience.
Sweet Son of Pan is a collection of erotic poems, born of crushes,
love affairs, fantasies, dreams, and real experiences with men from
around the world. These poems are written in a mood of devotion, a
praise through language of the sweetest garden we enter as physical
beings. They are a response to the sadness that is often a
consequence of sex; the fear that so unnecessarily surrounds it;
the disrespect that is visited upon it. They are wishes; elegies
for our lost brothers-and for the parts of ourselves that our lost;
parts we rediscover. They are a reaffirmation of sexual freedom and
the wisdom that can be gained from the journey along that
path-glimpses of paradise, our oneness and timelessness-and if we
are lucky, of a small horned creature with cloven hooves who
reminds us we came here only to share, and to share joyfully.
Selection, Over the Rainbow Project, GLBT Round Table of the
American Library Association Finalist, General Fiction, Lambda
Literary Awards Winner, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction,
Publishing Triangle Winner, Duggins outstanding Mid-Career novelist
Award, Lambda Literary Foundation
Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the
1980s and '90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant,
and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, and
visionary.
When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the strong
and self-possessed Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle
from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may
finally be taking a turn for the better. But the ensuing romance
proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The
grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise to Jimmy: "Take me
back the way I came."
And so Seamus sets out by bicycle on a picaresque journey with the
ashes, hoping to bring them back to Buffalo. He meets truck
drivers, waitresses, college kids, farmers, ranchers, Marines, and
other travelers--each one giving him a new perspective on his own
life and on Jimmy's death. When he meets and becomes involved with
a young Native American man whose mother has recently died,
Seamus's grief and his story become universal and redemptive.
How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one
's own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that
may be in conflict with some of the tenets of the faith especially
when one is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender,
Queer, and Intersex community? Queer and Catholic offers a source
of comfort to members of these communities, focusing on not only
practicing Catholics, but also the entire experience of growing up
Catholic. This unique book discusses Catholicism beyond its
religiosity and considers its implications as a culture of origin.
This widely varied and entertaining book pulls together a
comprehensive collection of essays, stories, and poetry that
together represent an honest and engaging reflection of being a
queer person within the Catholic experience.
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